Dhaka, May 2 -- Voicing concerns over visible efforts to make election demand an offence, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday said public doubts are mounting over why the interim government is buying so much time on reforms.

"Reform efforts are underway to repair the state and politics. But, if the political parties' demand for elections has to be ignored for the sake of ongoing reforms, then what is the significance of reforms? This is now the question on the minds of many people," he said while virtually addressing a discussion marking the fifth founding anniversary of "Amar Bangladesh (AB) Party."

He said every political party in the country is in favour of reforms. "Yet, questions are slowly growing in public mind about why...